Prayer Quotes

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

The God of all consolation, who heals the broken hearts and takes care of the wounds, hear our prayer:

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn’t be able to see my feet.

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul ‘prays in us with unspeakable groanings’.

If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.